Do you seriously believe that nothing separates us from the other monkeys? I'll admit that not a whole lot does, other primates feel emotions,
though to what level is certainly a mystery to me, if no one else. They feel anger, fear, but do they feel what we consider the higher emotions, such
as love, or grief? I'd again say they do. So indeed, not a whole lot separates us. Only our level of intelligence, and regardless what we may
often think, or in some cases act, we are much more intelligent than the ordinary run of the jungle primate. Not to the extent, perhaps, we might
think, but nevertheless, we are much more intelligent.

In my view, it really is only our intelligence that separates us from the other primates.

Sure we have spaceships, the Internet and nuclear power, but think about this,
we fight an incredible amount, half the time over silly things.

Now lets look at Bonobos, sure they have'nt developed cities or gone to the moon,
but they never go to war or fight with each other.
Now lets look at why, well they're just to immersed in the feeling of Post Coitem to
really do those things, since instead of fighting, they solve there differences
through having sex.

I say we follow the Bonobos example and have massive orgies in the streets,
I mean it's more pleasurable than fighting each other.

And the Germans killed the Jews
And the Jews killed the Arabs
And Arabs killed the hostages
And that is the news
And is it any wonder
That the monkey's confused

and

And when they found our shadows
Groups 'round the TV sets
They ran down every lead
They repeated every test
They checked out all the data in their lists
And then the alien anthropologists
Admitted they were still perplexed
But on eliminating every other reason
For our sad demise
They logged the only explanation left
This species has amused itself to death

I don't know bh.
You could always use the 'man's inhumanity to man' argument to show how cruel we are to other beings with the same conscious level as us but you
can also point to works of kindness which you and I have performed to others as examples of something that sets us apart. Yes , in the animal
kingdom, there are examples of philanthropic behaviour but is it a conscious choice or instinctive?

However, I loved the film. It made some points very strongly. I will just stick to trying to be a decent human being, if I can, though.

we think we're so great, we can tear down forests just to wipe our ol' monkey butts. we think we're so great, we'll go live on Mars and laugh at
all the primitive monkeys living on earth in their fruit laden canopies while we struggle to breathe.

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